Toril Swan
List of John Benjamins publications for which Toril Swan plays a role.
Articles
2012 Spatial metaphors in present-day Norwegian newspaper language Exploring Newspaper Language: Using the web to create and investigate a large corpus of modern Norwegian, Andersen, Gisle (ed.), pp. 307–330 | Article
The present investigation is a continuation and extension of our previous work on Norwegian opp/ned (‘up/down’) metaphors; cf. Swan & Breivik (2005) and Swan (2010). The investigation will be conducted within the framework of cognitive linguistics. Our primary concern will be with Norwegian opp/ned… read more
2003 -ende/-ing in the history of English Language and Function: To the memory of Jan Firbas, Hladký, Josef (ed.), pp. 289–305 | Article
2002 Norwegian. The representation of gender in Norwegian Gender Across Languages: The linguistic representation of women and men, Hellinger, Marlis and Hadumod Bußmann (eds.), pp. 219–249 | Article
1.Introduction
2. Historical and sociolinguistic background
3. The representation of gender in Norwegian
3.1 Grammatical gender
3.2 Agreement: Pronouns and adjectives
3.3 Lexical gender
4. Word-formation
4.1 Compounding
4.2 Derivation
5. Names and… read more